Compound for treating tobacco



UNITED STATES EDWARD D. WELLS, oF HAMPs'rEAD, MARYLA D.

PATENT OFFICE.

COMPOUND FOR TREATING TOBACCO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,364, datedSeptember 16, 1884.

Application filed April 16, 1884. (No specimens.)

destroy, as far as practicable, the injurious effects produced on thehuman system by smoking tobacco, and to this end I treat the tobaccowith a chemical compound consisting of tannic acid, benzoic acid, andValerian.

The compound consists of about ten parts tannic acid, one part ofbenzoic acid, and seven parts of Valerian, which parts are eachseparately pulverized and thoroughly mixed together in theabove-described proportions. The compound may be employed in itspulverized state or in solution. When applied to smoking-tobacco, thelatter is spread out thinly on a platform, and sprinkled with a solutionof the compound at the rate of about one to two drains of the solutionof the compound to one pound of the smoking-tobacco.

The alkaloid nicotine is neutralized by the.

tannic acid, the benzoic acid neutralizes the ammonia, and the Valerianis employed to quiet the nerves of the smoker.

In applying the compound to a cigar, it is preferably applied to thefiller by inserting from two to three grains of the pulverized materialin the filler at its mouth end before the cigar is manufactured, andsprinkling the remaining portion of the filler with a solution of thecompound in the proportion above stated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- A compoundfor treating tobacco, consisting of about ten parts of tannic acid. onepart of'benzoic acid, and seven parts of Valerian,

as set forth.

EDWD. D. WELLS.

Witnesses:

SoLoN G. KEMON, JEssE MIDDLETON.

